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Online Course Greens Successful
Relationships, Jobs and Careers.
Project NatureConnect
Friday Harbor, San Juan
Island, Washington, USA
Institute of Global Education
Clinical
Psychology and Natural Attraction Ecology
Special
NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Green
distance learning success to improve professions, careers and jobs.
| SYNOPSIS: This nature-connecting course report describes a leadership success sensory science and online degree program that is funded. The ecopsychology of its educating, counseling and healing with nature process is key to market successes. Backyard or back country, Project NatureConnect's successful holistic sensory education courses empower you to tap your thinking into the secret of success found in the grace, balance and self-correcting powers of natural systems and Earth. Learn how to be successful by using this alternative and organic clinical psychology tool for business success. It helps improve health wellness and counseling as it helps an individual's thinking and feeling to safely tap into the truths of nature's spirit. To succeed, participants master alternative therapist, coaching and holistic spiritual therapy as part of their small business, profession or personal life. PROGRAM
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Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Supportive Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs On Line Project NatureConnect offers you a key to success nature-centered distant learning process and stratagies. It enables you to daily add the benefits of nature-connecting methods to your degree program and/or your skills, interests and hobbies. Our market and business success training honors your critical thinking, prior education and life experience in most areas of interest by providing grants and equivalent life education credit for success stories that help you succeed. You may find and take accredited or professional CEU coursework for business success and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or management success certificate in most disciplines or personal interests. Our online success factors and strategies produce natural, global education, social justice, safety and peace events. A partial subject and search engine list is located at the bottom of this page.
NOTE: The reports, below, are parts of a field studies from anonymous participants in our sensory green-your-profession program. Other examples and findings are available through links on our survey page. A Wonderful Lesson "I would like to share with you a success experience I had this past weekend, as it was transformative. I feel like I went into the wilderness and came out molded into a new version of myself! I took a Wilderness Survival Course in a very rocky rugged area with deciduous forest cougar, moose, wolves, black bears and a variety of other wonderful flora nd fauna). For success, I had to survive 24 hours in the wilderness with the following things: 1 tarp, 2 space tarps, 1 wool blanket, 1 empty tin can, 3 pieces of beef jerkey, 1 knife, 1 flint and steel for making fire and the clothes on my back. I am pleased to say that I passed and obtained the certificate! I was successful in that learned about myself how far I can be pushed, what my limitations are, and what I can overcome. I can sleep outside in nothing but an 'A' frame shelter made of trees and sticks. I can sleep with nothing but a wool blanket and some space tarps looking up at the half moon. I can tune into the forest and become aware of all of the life happening around me. I can sense the amount of life around me and realize how small I am in this bigger picture. My success key is that I feel stronger right now than I have ever felt. The feeling that I had after completing a 60Km canoe trip is comparable in some respect, but at the same time different. I feel like I can always succeed. By creating appropriate clinical psychology success factors and strategies and I can do anything if I put my mind to it and if I focus on the task at hand. I learned how important it is to prioritize. I learned how important it is to be responsible and disciplined. I have to re-define myself now, because if I can do this - what else can I do? Not only this, but this weekend, on Sunday morning we were instructed to take a moment and walk away from the group to find a place to sit. Somewhere where we could not see another person and we could only see nature. We were told to close our eyes and reflect. When I closed my eyes the most amazing thing happened....a thesis idea came to me. A hypothesis popped into my mind. (this being that I hypothesize that those people that spend more time in nature than those that don't have lower levels of depression - still rough but truly a lightbulb moment.) I had given up on the idea of writing a thesis!!!!! And yet here was something so clear, and so profoundly touching to me that I want to explore the option. We were instructed to open our eyes and just reflect on what we saw. I saw the most beautiful piece of nature. The sun was shining through in splinters through the forest canopy. The babbling brook behind me was soothing me and calming all residual anxiety or worry. I saw the most resilient and amazing tree growing out of a small crack in a rock, it's roots grasping, literally holding on for life. It was nature teaching me a direct lesson. I thought about how far removed we are from nature. It brought tears to my eyes. I'm not sure what it was exactly that brought the tears; was it the beauty or was it the fact that so many of us pass through life without experiencing this beauty? Perhaps it was a combination of the two. I knew at that moment that what is needed in my life is slowness and stratagies to produce management success. So much of life is spent rushing around from point A to point B and yet we miss so much of what is in between. I realized that my plans for the future are just that - they are plans. So many things can change in the course of one weekend. (IE me finding a thesis topic and actually thinking about it - before this weekend I did not think I was capable of doing it) I also realized that much of my time in the Environmental Education and Communication program and now my Ecopsych Orientation course has been spent behind a computer screen rather than getting out and experiencing the environment itself for market success. I vow to adjust this and use stratagies to get out and spend more time with nature. I realized the very basic defintion of human survival and sustainability: clean water, minimal food and conservation of food, energy conservation, comaraderie with fellow humans and the will to live. I reflected greatly on how little we actually need to survive and how much we could do without. A wonderful lesson that struck cords within the core of the soul. Something that I want to transfer into my daily life. . A Course: Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship Supporting Texts: Cohen, Michael J.( 2003) “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative ecopsychology techniques that help people think in balance with natural systems”. Cohen, Michael J. (2007) Reconnecting with Nature: Finding wellness through restoring your bond with Earth.” …I look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky and wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering… - David Whyte, from “The Sun” The poem quoted above provides an poetic expression for one of the most useful aspects that came out of this participant’s experiences while engaged in this course. The course invited participants to seek out attractions in and of the natural world. A framework was provided to support the participants “true understanding” of an attraction. In one of these experiences, this participant was attracted to a rock on a ledge in an Arizona mountain range. Sitting on this rock provided a magnificent view of the valley below and of the surrounding mountain ranges. Once this participant sat on the rock, she discovered it to be quite a challenge. This day presented strong wind gusts which made it difficult to maintain one’s balance. Although the view was attractive, staying safely on the rock was not an inviting experience. Prior to this course, this participant would have “struggled to maintain her position on the rock” regardless of the challenging high wind gusts. I would have thought this necessary for successful business results, too. One of the secret of success lessons provided by nature’s intelligence in this situation was: “You have a choice; you don’t have to experience this struggle”. In nature, beauty comes naturally and through the paths of least resistance. The tree root grows around the rock, water flows down the stream and the creeks and rivers cut paths through the least resistant areas of the terrains within their particular ecosystems. We as humans can tend to resist and/or refuse to follow our natural state of being, which many times leads us into (unconscious) unnecessary struggle. For many, the disconnect from nature and the ensuing abuses, violence and wounding that this disconnect promotes, removes us from even knowing or understanding the natural experiences of beauty and how to track our own ability to blossom. Michael J. Cohen, (2003) presents this sobering analysis in The Web of Life Imperative: “Our
estrangements from nature prejudiciously and addictively deprive our
thinking from conscious connection with the attraction, nurturance and
energies of webstrings and our wellness and relationships improve when
we genuinely reconnect to authentic nature.” (WLI)
Steve, a course participant also stated this beautifully in one of his weekly postings, “The
intelligent role I sensed the Sapling was playing was that of
simplicity and trust in the divine essence that is guiding its journey
to maturity. The intelligence translated informed me everything grand
and magnificent begins with a very simple, yet very powerful equation
contained in a seed. The seed contains the entire DNA of the
tree, and the only requirement necessary is to follow the map/trail
hidden in the written intelligence.”
Through the activities presented in the text of the Web of Life Imperative (WLI), this participant’s, felt senses for: attractions, belonging, connections, self discovery, trust, and webstring intelligences were experienced. When speaking of the “felt sense” it is a reference to an experience of the senses, which cannot be put into words. The felt senses for this participant are integrated emotions and psychobiological responses to the experience of being in nature as a sacred event. In this course about how to be successful naturally, Michael Cohen successfully introduces participants to an experientially based framework for learning through nature and the inherent wisdom (webstring intelligences) that nature has to offer. The core concepts in this course are elements which are essential for the healthy development of Global Citizenship. They include the importance of reconnecting with nature through personal subjective experiences supported by one’s innate wisdom beyond academia and authoritative dogmatic practices. The course promotes the development of what David Korten, “The Great Turning”, (2006) describes as the fifth and highest order of awakening human consciousness: Spiritual Consciousness. Korten writes,
“The Spiritual Consciousness, the highest expression of what it means
to be human, manifests the awakening to Creation as a complex,
multidimensional, interconnected, continuously unfolding
whole.
It involves coming full circle back to the original sense of oneness of
the womb experience, but with a richly nuanced appreciation for the
complexity and grandeur of the whole of Creation as manifest in each
person, animal, plant and rock. The womb of experience is
wholly
passive. Persons who have attained a Spiritual Consciousness
have
an evolving “Integral World” view and find meaning in serving as active
partners or co-creators in Creation’s evolutionary quest to actualize
its possibilities. (p.47)
Korten goes on to state, “We
are each
expressions of an unbroken flow of the choices made by living organisms
since intelligent life energy first began to express itself on planet
Earth some 4,000 million years ago.” (p.270) Lynn Marqulis
(“What
is Life”) writes, “Life is matter gone wild, capable of choosing its
own directions.”(p.97)
Sandy, a course participant, experienced this transformational shift and wrote about it in a weekly posting, “Since
that moment, I have been drawn intensively to Nature and away from
those (academic) goals. I am actually seeing in my dreams
glimpses of my life in Nature and that Montana is the right place for
me to be. The more I tried to work on my studies the more my
body
became ill and would not allow me to do the work. The more I
walked in Nature and acknowledged my natural environment around me, the
more messages I kept receiving about my true calling. I tried
to
ignore these messages, it did not work. The more I resisted
the
sicker I got. Nature took over and said I’m going to keep you this way
until you listen…”
Through this course text, Cohen challenges participants to awaken to the inherent wisdom infused in and displayed by Nature. Cohen promotes the importance of a non-language (53 senses) and non technical (artificial stories and techniques) “bio-logic” which is multisensory and heeds each moments natural attractions that call to our inner nature through our more than 53 genetically inherited, but culturally devalued, natural senses and feelings. (Cohen 1997) Cohen assists participants in understanding what he calls, “ancient, globally evolved memory signals”, multisensory ways of knowing and being for harmonious survival “To
find lasting peace, we must
heed a new story: “Learn how to reconnect your ruptured
sensory
webstrings with their brilliant, fulfilling, organic origins in the
lifeweb.”
(Cohen, 2003) Participants are introduced to Cohen’s Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) and given the opportunity to experience this process while engaged with nature on a weekly basis. This process unleashes the participants’ ability to grow and survive responsibly with the natural systems within and around them. As participants we were able to recover our natural integrity from readings and sharing sensory reconnection activities in local natural areas at home in our backyard, backcountry or nature preserves within our individual communities. The concepts of Cohen’s early teachings and experiences are now becoming more mainstream in the evolving fields of Ecopsychology. Authors such as Korten have designed their own frameworks which serve to support Cohen’s fifty plus years of research and experiential exercises. Korten frames this wisdom as Core principles of Nature as Teacher. Such principles include: Cooperative Self Organization, Principle of Place where life has learned to organize into complex multiorganism ecosystems, Permeable Boundaries, Abundance, Diversity and finally the establishment of an Earth Community. “We
shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to
survive.”
(Albert Einstein) This new way of thinking is to “Turn from money, to Life, as our defining value. Also, turning from relations of domination to relations of partnership based on organizing principles discerned from the study of healthy living systems. Relationships, not money, are the true measure of well-being. What matters most is our connection to and participation in the life of community”. Korten, (2006) These statements continue to validate what Cohen proposes in The Web of Life Imperative as essential in the movement to rejuvenate power to people and the planet earth. Participation in this course not only promoted a greater awareness of the need for a shift in consciousness for global citizenship through webstring connections; it also addressed the psychological health and growth of each individual within the human race. It is pointed out that nature does not display the runaway problems found in human experiences. Our problems are a result of a disconnect with nature, the natural environment and our inherent natural processes. Cohen states: “At
birth we are physically
and emotionally “amputated” from the environment. Our
traumatic
separation desensitizes us to natural life, including the nature of our
children, each other and our inner nature. We uncontrollably
violate the world with the anger and frustration from our lack of
natural fulfillment and wisdom and the subconscious hurt we feel and
protect from further irritation. Often, to our cost, we
emotionally attach, addict to or depend on persons or substances that
fulfill our wanting, nature-disconnected senses. With respect
to
nature, we live in a state of Traumatic Pyschological Shock.
(TPS). It pollutes healthy reasoning, environments and
budgets. It is reversed by nurturing and restoring our 53
natural
senses back to wellness and contact with Earth. We have lost
conscious sensory contact with our living planet and community.”
(WLI, 2003) The Web of Life Imperative provides nature based experiential activities intended to help people regenerate themselves through immersion in nature. The framework for these activities is that participants enter nature and natural settings as a guest and with reverence, rather than a “conquering” mentality. Each activity invites the participant to discern what/where in nature they are being called/attracted and then to ask permission before engaging in that environment. This practice of humbly gaining permission presents the participant with a more sacred and spiritual relationship with their environment than merely “tromping through a forest” for time in nature. These organically based exercises and techniques have been adopted by many contemporary Depth and Eco-psychologists. Bill Plotkin, an author, teacher and wilderness guide of 30 years has developed techniques he has labeled as “Soulcraft” His recent publication of this name, “Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and the Psyche” (2003) provides readers with an experiential guide to the wilderness of the soul. Plotkin states; “We
come to understand that what is reflected by nature
is not just who we are now but also who we could become. And so we
begin entering nature as a pilgrim in search of his true home, a
wanderer with an intimation of communion, a solitary with a suspicion
of salvation. (p.237)
Janet, a class participant, so beautifully reinforces this concept with her personal experience posted during a weekly response session. “The
transition from womb to world is
certainly a powerful example of natural attraction. The whole
idea of being born anew is seen again in the free will each of us
possesses every day. Nature too has its free will…and how
powerful it can be, how subtle, how gentle, how irrational (to me) it
can be sometimes. Every sunrise is the birth of a new day,
each
sunset a brief pause. Relationships and their rhythms; their
ebb
and flow, give and take. It’s never 50-50, is
it?
It’s 60-40 one time and 20-80 another. Nature fills me with
simple, honest awe and gratitude. The act of breathing, this
subconscious, life-giving exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide which
makes our lives directly and intimately connected to all of life on
earth, this one of countless unknown and incomprehensibly diverse
reasons for our being, is sacred really. From this experience
I
was most drawn to the idea of belonging - I think of Rilke’s
“because everything here apparently needs us,”.
Plotkin’s latest work, “ Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World,”( 2008) takes Cohen’s concept of ecopsychology even further in that he has authored an entire book on a nature based Soulcentric Developmental Wheel of Human Growth and Development. Plotkin validates the concepts and practices presented in Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship. He writes, “The
Soulcentric Developmental Wheel’s most significant design influence is
Nature. Every feature of the Wheel is thematically tied to
the
readily observable qualities of the natural world associated with the
four compass directions, the diurnal cycle (sunrise, noon, sunset, and
midnight) and the four seasons.”
Plotkin reinforces the concept of ecopsychology /organic psychology through his model and stages of obtaining wholeness and true psychological maturity. (defined differently here than what is noted in growth and development models in traditional psychological circles). Plotkin states;
“What really makes a person an elder has nothing to do with say,
chronological age, number of grandchildren, retirement, or even
achievement in a certain craft or career. Rather, it has to
do
with a way of belonging to the world that is consciously centered on
the soul of the more-than human community.”
The important lessons presented throughout this course teach and substantiate that the human soul and nature are identical. We learn that deep within us we have the inherent biological ability to creatively think and relate with the natural balance and beauty of webstrings. (Cohen 2003). We begin to understand that nature survives in balance through attractions that unite, build and sustain consensual, mutually supportive relationships. For humans, we can reverse our psychological imbalances through repeated thoughtful, shared consensual, sensory contacts with webstring attractions in natural areas reconnecting our thinking and experiences with nature’s ways. (Cohen, 2003) As humans, through these practices we can participate in more sensitive and responsible personal, social and environmental relationships. We can learn to trust and use these nature connected experiences to help produce unity and balance both individually and collectively within all societies and cultures throughout the world. Additional References Korten, David C. (2006) “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. San Francisco, CA. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. (1995) “What is Life”. New York: Simon & Schuster. Plotkin, Bill. (2003) “Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche.” Noato, CA. New World Library. Plotkin, Bill (2008) “Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World”. Noato, CA. New World Library. *
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